A Girl in Exile

Author: Kadare, Ismail, Hodgson, John

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 30 March 2017 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa’s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book. As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication – to Linda B.